Friday, December 4, 2015

It's Really Islamic Terror and No, We Don't Need More Gun Control

The New Face of
Islamic Terror in America

We now know that the terrorists in Wednesday’s attack in San
Bernardino were identified as Middle Eastern Muslims, Syed
Farook, his wife Tashfeen Malik, and Qatari-born Tayyeep
Bin Ardogan. This was Islamic terrorism. The denial of this fact by the government and media is
absolutely sickening. Because there is no smoking gun, such as social media
posts (they were scrubbed the day before the incident) and the terrorists didn’t
shout “Allahu ackbar!”, the government,
leftists, and the media can only ‘guess’ at the motive. Other than the fact the perpetrators
were all Muslims, their verified ties to suspected radicals and preparation
indicates this was not random workplace violence.

It’s becoming apparent that ‘lone wolf’ attacks, not
directed by a country or larger terrorist organization like Al-Qaeda, are the
new threat. For the first few years of the last decade, America was focused
almost solely on major terrorist attacks. Our airplanes got hardened cockpit
doors, our pilots got guns, TSA stripped us virtually naked and made us take
off our shoes. Lady Liberty closed, barricades sprung up around you local
federal offices, and we held out breaths when we were warned to buy plastic
sheeting and duct tape. WMDs, dirty bombs, suitcase nukes and sleeper cells
were the stuff of nightmares.

FBI agents worked around the clock trying to prevent the
next attack. Thankfully, the wars in Afghanistan and later Iraq drew the
jihadi’s like moths to flame and they were slain overseas rather than in the United
States. It was far easier for a riled-up young Saudi to travel across the
border to Iraq and bomb Americans than it was for them to somehow infiltrate
our country. Many, many would-be homeland terrorists instead died at the hands
of our soldiers and Marines in the desert.

Al-Qaeda, the global terrorist organization dedicated to
destroying the United States, was broken, leaving us without a Number One enemy
in the War on Terror. It’s fair to mention that it never was some sort of James
Bond-esque SPECTRE type organization. Once President Obama withdrew most troops
from Iraq (and ended Bush’s War on Terror), a huge vacuum of power was left in
the region and was filled with violent jihadists from Syria. ISIS is still only
a small regional force. It does not have the power or organization to lead mass
attacks abroad like the Bin Laden funded and led Al-Qaeda could. However, its
powerful social media has duped thousands.

Despite the rather pedantic and naïve way the political
dilettantes fought the Taliban and George W. Bushs’ misguided revenge on Saddam
Hussein, there was a benefit to it all. We did not see a single Islamic
terrorist attack in the United States until Barack Obama’s presidency in 2009
when a Muslim psychiatrist shot up Fort Hood.
‘Lone wolf’ terrorism was the new wildcard.

Israel’s experiences were the model for the fears of the
kind of attacks that were (and still are) expected: suicide bombers and machine
gun armed terrorists attacking buses, malls, and pizza shops. Paris’ two
attacks this year are a good example of the extreme of non-directed attacks. In
America, we had the two brothers who
bombed the Boston Marathon despite any orders from Chechen groups.

Fed by disgusting videos and violent rhetoric, ISIS has
encouraged many to travel to Syria and Iraq to swell its ranks. It has claim to
have infiltrated Western society with hundreds of terrorists willing to wage
jihad. Time will soon tell if we have a rag-tag army among us or just random whack
jobs radicalized online.

Americans will now have to worry about being shot in our
workplace by our friends. A Muslim turns his hatred of the Western lifestyle
against his friend and co-workers. This soft target wasn’t a mall, but the
mastermind’s workplace. We expected schools, shopping malls, churches to be
shot up—not a Christmas Party at work. Look around at your co-workers. Sure, we
joke about someone being the type to go postal and blast the office when they
have a bad day, but we don’t actually imagine that our dependable Muslim
colleague is going to practice the parts of the Quran that call for jihad. Literally
anywhere can become a target for terror, not just the obvious targets like
malls, casinos, crowds, and high-profile attractions. Being California, none of the employees could
be armed (same story in most Nevada government offices).

Denial of Islamic
Terror

Federal and local law enforcement delayed and prevaricated
in placing the blame of this attack squarely where it belongs; Islam. This was
a pre-planned attack, not a case of sudden rage from a disgruntled co-worker.
Not even the most irrational people who decide to commit a sudden act of murder
stock up body armor, weapons, and pipe bombs ‘just in case’ they want to go off
on a particular day. The media took forever to confirm the information, despite
it being available for half the day.

CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, jumped out
in front of the press Wednesday night trying distance Islam from this Islamic
terrorist attack. CAIR has
been tied to Palestinian terror group Hamas. CAIR is the group that comes
out every time Muslims are implicated in an Islamic terrorist incident to lie
about Islam being a religion of peace. Interestingly, the Arabic root work that
Islam is derived from means ‘surrender’ and not surrender of the self, but
surrender as give in to Islam (or die). Islam didn't spread across the Arabian desert through missionaries, but by war and slaughter.

Make no bones about it; Islam calls for the death of those
who will not convert (kaffirs, or
unbelievers). Islamic end-times prophecies hold that Isa, the Muslim
incarnation of Jesus, will finally slay all remaining unbelievers on behalf of
the Muslim messiah, the Mahdi. I’m not getting too much into how Islam is an existential threat to the west or how the Quran really is violent. I’ve done
that in a
previous post and you can find better articles online yourself. Thankfully,
most Muslims in America aren’t going to kill you even if their more religious kin might.

Excuse for Gun
Control

Even before any substantive details were out, politicians
were calling for gun control and the media lamenting gun violence and mass
shootings in America. I
predicted this. You know, the same old story that helps push the narrative
that guns are bad and need to be banned. Capitalizing on the crisis, senators
attempted to ram universal background checks down the throats of Americans, but
the measure was defeated.

Unfortunately, Democrats have lately been calling for
closing the so-called ‘Terrorist Loophole’ by adding anyone on the terror watch-list
to the roles of prohibited persons. This is at the same time when it has become
fashionable for anti-gun leftists, who are calling the NRA a terrorist
organization and its members terrorists. I don’t think any of the terrorists in
San Bernardino were NRA members, nor has Wayne La Pierre called for murdering
anyone. Can you imagine giving these mentally unbalanced individuals the power
to put average American gun owners on a terror watch-list?

It could very well happen. TSA
agents, innocent grandparents, people with a name similar to actual
terrorists have wound up on the list, without due process, lost their right to
fly, and had to endure a Kafkaesque process to get their name off the list. If
people can wind up on the list by
accident, for
stupid reasons, or even protect airplanes from terrorists, and yet be on a
list of suspected terrorists, do we really want to trust that kind of source?

No one wants terrorists to buy a gun, but the whole ‘terrorist
loophole’ bullshit it just that. First, innocent until proven guilty. No one
should have a right taken away until they’ve had their day in court, first. Second, the FBI or other law
enforcement should be paying attention to anyone on the list if they buy a gun.
Third, true terrorists, like in San Bernardino, will find another way to get
guns, such as smuggling them as was done in the Paris attacks.

Never mind the fact that Wednesday’s terrorists bought their
weapons legally in a state that has universal background checks and some of the
strictest gun control laws in America. Those gun control laws deterred the
terrorists as much as the laws against murder did.

Last, going back to the idiots who consider the NRA to be
terrorists for using their right to free speech and democratic political action,
just who constitutes a ‘terrorist’ is up for grab. Imagine the Obama
administration finding a way to declare all gun owners who support the Second
Amendment unfettered terrorists. “Those who believe they have the right to own
guns to overthrow a government they disagree are a clear and present threat to
the government of the United States.” Imagine your ‘Molon Labe’ or ‘Don’t Tread
On Me’ bumper stickers being used to justify your support for a 'terrorist' civilian militia movement. Just take a look at the demonization of gun owners;
it’s plausible and very frightening.